When they were announced, the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (P7100), HP TouchPad , the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry PlayBook wiped the floor with the original iPad in terms of raw specification. After all, they are all dual-core. However, the new iPad, the iPad 2 , has a dual-core Apple A5 processor. And, what's more, the iPad 2 looks like it will even beat the Motorola Xoom to UK shops. The iPad 2 UK release date is 25 March , while the Motorola Xoom UK release date looks like the beginning of April. Apple iPad 2: 12 things you need to know We should be seeing the PlayBook arrive in the Spring or early Summer and it shouldn't be too long before the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 appears. But HP has been a little more coy and but it looks like the TouchPad UK release date is June . HP TouchPad: what you need to know And, if you're wondering why the HTC Flyer isn't included here, it's simply that it doesn't match up to any of these tablets - at the moment HTC says it will ship with the non-tablet OS Android 2.3, while it only has a single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. However, this might change by the time the tablet is actually released. Let's see how the iPad 2 stacks up against its rivals.
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